Former Fellows | Interventional Cardiology | MedStar Health

Class of 2023-2025

Waiel Abusnina

Waiel Abusnina, MD

Medical School: Tripoli University, Tripoli, Libya
Internal Medicine Residency: Marshall University, Huntington, WV
Advanced Cardiac Imaging Fellowship: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
General Cardiology Fellowship: Creighton University, Omaha, NE

Placement: University of Tripoli of Medicine in Libya
Publication during IC fellowship: 29 total, 7 as first author

Abhishek Chaturvedi

Abhishek Chaturvedi, MD

Medical School: Pandit B.D. Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, India
Residency Training: Internal Medicine at Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Fellowship Training: Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Cardiology Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, USA

Placement: United Hospital Center Bridgeport West Virginia 
Publication during IC fellowship: 46 total, 11 as first author


Kalyan Chitturi

Kalyan R. Chitturi, DO

Medical School: UNTHSC Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Worth, TX
Internal Medicine Residency: Houston Methodist, Houston, TX
Cardiology Fellowship: University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO

Placement: Houston Methodist Texas. 
Publication during IC fellowship: 57 total, 13 as first author

Danny Haberman

Danny Haberman, MD

Medical school: Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Hungary.
Internal Medicine Residency: Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel.
General Cardiology Fellowship: Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel

Placement: Kaplan medical center Israel. 
Publication during IC fellowship:  28 total, 9 as first author

Lior Lupu

Lior Lupu, MD

Medical School: Hadassah Medical School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Internal Medicine Residency: Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Cardiology Fellowship: Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Placement:  Structural fellowship at Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN
Publication during IC fellowship: 31 total, 13 as first author

Class of 2022-2024

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Ilan Merdler, MD

Medical School: Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) Medical School, Haifa, Israel
Internal Medicine Residency: Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Cardiology Fellowship: Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Placement: New York City Essen Health, New York
Publication during IC fellowship: 40 Total and 25 as first author

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Pavan Reddy, MD

Medical School: SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn, NY
Internal Medicine Residency: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
General Cardiology Fellowship: Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, New York, NY

Placement: UC San Diego Health, San Diego
Publication during IC fellowship: 22 Total and 10 as first author

2021-2023

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Amer Ismil Aladin, MD, MS

Medical School: University of Dohuk, Dohuk College of Medicine, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Family Medicine Residency: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport
Geriatrics Fellowship: Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans
Internal Medicine Residency: Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Master of Sciences (Cardiovascular Epidemiology): Wake Forest University
Cardiology Fellowship: Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Placement: Saint Joseph’s University in New Jersey

Publication during IC fellowship: 9 Total and 6 as first author

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Sukhdeep Bhogal, MD

Medical School: Dayanand Medical College India
Internal Medicine Residency: East Tennessee State University
Cardiology Fellowship: East Tennessee State University

Placement: Sovah Health - Danville in Virginia

Publication during IC fellowship: 20 Total and 11 as first author

2020-2022

Mohit Pahuja

Mohit Pahuja, MBBS

Medical School: Kasturba Medical College
Internal Medicine Residency: Creighton University
Cardiology Fellowship: Wayne State University
Heart Failure Fellowship: Washington Hospital Center 
 
Placement: University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma

Publication during IC fellowship: 13 Total and 7 as first author


 
Giorgio Medranda

Giorgio A. Medranda, MD

Medical School: SUNY Downstate College of Medicine
Internal Medicine Residency: NYU Langone Hospital — Long Island
Cardiology Fellowship: NYU Langone Hospital — Long Island

Placement: NYU Langone Hospital in Long Island, NY .

Publication during IC fellowship: 46 Total and 26 as first author


2019-2021

Charan Yerasi

Charan Yerasi, MD

Medical School: Gandhi Medical College
IM Residency: Medstar Georgetown University/ Washington Hospital Center
Cardiology Fellowship: Creighton University School of Medicine.

Placement: Arizona Heart Specialists, Phoenix, AZ.

Publication during IC fellowship: Total 66 and first authors  18

Brian Case

Brian C Case, MD

Medical School: St. George's University School of Medicine
IM Residency: MedStar Georgetown University
Cardiology Fellowship: MedStar Georgetown University Hospital/MedStar Washington Hospital Center 

Placement:
MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute

Publication during IC fellowship: 80 Total and 32 as first author

Brian Forrestal

Brian J Forrestal, MD

Medical School:  University of Limerick School of Medicine, Limerick, Ireland
IM Residency: Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ 
Cardiology Fellowship:  Georgetown University/Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC

Placement: Private Practice, Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ

Publication during IC fellowship: Total: 55 first Author: 7

Chava Chezar-Azerrad

Chava Chezar-Azerrad, MD

Medical School: Technion Israeli Institute of Technology Haifa Israel
IM Residency: Rabin Medical Center Petah Tikvah, Israel
Cardiology Fellowship: Rabin Medical Center Petah Tikvah, Israel

Placement: Capitol Cardiology Associates

Publication during IC fellowship: Total 28and first authors  4